Jeff Adams

The hard work of accountability By Jeremy Clarke Most governance problems are not execution failures but clarity failures around who owns decisions and who is accountable. Post-acquisition integration determines M&A success By Jeff Adams The real work in AEC M&A begins after closing, where integration turns a transaction into sustainable growth and value. The myth of work/life balance By Mark Zweig Work/life balance sounds appealing, but real careers and real lives are built through integration.

The federal government reached out to her multiple times to study how she lived to be 105 years old. I’ve only known her the last quarter of her life, but valued her friendship over those years. I bring this up, now, because she just transitioned into eternity this past week. She lived between Yelm and Lacey all the years I’ve known her, but she grew up in Arkansas. Her love for Southern things never went away.

The man and his boys were dressed very sharply, but the little boys were not behaving well on the crowded subway. The father wasn’t paying attention to his children much at all, while they were running back and forth, bothering other people. Finally, a well-meaning Christian man spoke up and said something like, “Sir, could you please get your children under control?” The father snapped out of his obliviousness, and asked his boys to calm down and sit next to him on the other side.